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The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station,
is published three times weekly, and issued TudMiay, Thursday
and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress df March 3, 1870.
Subscription rates $3 per school year. Advertising rates
upon request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service.
Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco.
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-B444.
1941 Member 1942
Pissockoted GoUe6icite Press
Brooks Gofer - Editor-in-Chief
Ken Bresnen 1 Associate Editor
Phil Crown : Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
Mike Haikin Sports -Editor
Mike Mann Assistant Sports Editor
Chick Hurst Senior Sports Assistant
N. Libson Junior Sports Editor
Advertising Staff
Reggie Smith Advertising Manager
Jack E. Carter , Tuesday Asst. Advertising Manager
Louis A. Bridges '....Thursday Asst. Advertising Manager
Jay Pumphrey Saturday Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Staff
Bill Huber , Circulation Manager
H. R. Tampke ....Senior Assistant
Carlton Power Senior Assistant
Joe Stalcup Junior Assistant
Bill Trodlier Assistant
Saturday’s Staff
Ken Bresnen Managing Editor
Com Journeay Junior Managing Editor
John Holman Junior Editor
Douglass Lancaster— Junior Editor
Reporters
Harry Cordua, Bob Garrett, Ramon McKinney, Bert Kurtz,
Bill Jamagin, Bob Meredith, Bill Japhet, Bill Murphy, John
Sparger, M. T. Linecum, Eugene Robards, and John Kelleher.
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Aggies on Parade
This week 6500 cadets have an opportunity
to prove to the people of Dallas and North
Texas that A&M is turning out officers who
are mannerly and well disciplined, and who
will always reflect credit upon their school
and state.
Aggies are “marked men”—and the uni
form you wear denotes you as one of a great
brotherhood, and at the same time causes
you to stand out and attract attention. The
people of the state have their eyes on you
today.
Careless or disorderly conduct on the
part of one man can easily bring down on
the school an unfavorable impression of the
whole corps. Therefore let yourself be mark
ed not only by the uniform you wear, but
also by your personal conduct. Each man
should strive to conduct himself in an ex
emplary manner, so that the mark of an
Aggie may continue to be not the uniform,
but rather his personal behavior and bearing.
Get out to the game and pull for the
team, go out after the game and have a good
time, but always remember that for all prac
tical purposes, today the Aggies are on pa
rade.
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Wartime Aims
(An Editorial in the Minneapolis, Minn.,
Star Journal.)
The President says occasionally that he does
not think newspapers have nearly as much
influence as they used to meaning, of course
the editorial columns. We think maybe he’s
got something there, and we’d like to help
him say what we think he means—and ap
plaud it!
More Americans read newspapers to
day than ever did before, and surveys indi
cate that more of those readers read the
editorial page. But they have a lot of other
avenues of information and opinion, too—
the radio, and far wider diffusion of maga
zines and books on current affairs, not to
mention schools and pulpits and clubs in
creasingly concerned with current issues.
A generation or two ago and earlier,
"when the daily or weekly newspaper was al
most the only source of contemporary in
formation in the average American home,
its editorial column was the only fountain
^of “expert” opinion available to many, except
the cracker-barrel forum and the occasional
visit of a political candidate or a lyceum lec
turer.
In those days editorial columns tended
naturally to develop and to thunder to (and
for) followings which accepted their opinions
as gospel and had few yardsticks to measure
them against. The head of the house either
swore by an editor’s views or wouldn’t have
his cussed sheet around the house.
That is’nt true to any great degree these
days—which is all to the good.
No opinion is expressed from any quar
ter today that doesn’t have to stand up
against the challenges of other opinions and
interpretations—in other periodicals, over
the radio, in forum groups, and often from
the pulpit.
In other words, the average American
today makes up his own mind instead of de
pending upon someone to make it up for him.
This editorial column, for at least one, has no
aspiration to create a cult and wouldn’t give
a fig for a following which accepted its views
blindly and without subjecting them to the
tests of divergent opinion. But if this edi
torial column can have influence in the di
rection of tolerance and open-mindedness—
if it and the page of which it is a part can
bring information to controversy and can pry
ajar new doors to the thinking of some of
those who read it—and if, a good deal of the
"time, it can express views which make sense
after other views hav« been read or heard
and weighed, views which play some useful
part in the shaping by readers of their own
attitudes and decisions as citizens—then it
fulfills its function.
It welcomes and encourages all the other
means of public discussion which share and
supplement its function—if only for the self
ish reason that the more such means there
are, the larger and more intelligent audience
there is for all of them.
Something to Read
PRIVATE BUCK By Clyde Lewis
: By Dr. T. F. May*:
The War and Your Education (II)
Having been asked to specify ways of making
the war educate you for better instead of
for worse, I suggest the following:
Learn to analyze people’s motives (in
cluding your own). Military life displays
human character more nakedly than ordinary
decorous civilian existence. Try to fit your
self by reading and by thoughtful observa
tion to understand why people feel, think,
and act as they do. Good preparatory books
are Overstreet’s “About Ourselves” and “Let
Me Think,” J. W. Watson’s “Ways of Bar
barism,” and R. A. Howden’s “The Man in
the Street and the New Psychology.”
Learn to discern the workings of social
forces: economic conditions, class traditions,
family habits, political systems, military life
by mixing all classes together intimately
will probably provide you with the best op
portunity of your whole life to understand
how the forces of economic class, social tra
dition, and family habit shape and color per
sonalities. Don’t let any prejudice that you
may hold against the economic classes above
and below your own, prevent you from sym
pathetically studying people with back
grounds very different from yours. (As to
books to read in this connection, I am asham
ed to say that I can’t think of any good ones.
Somebody ought to write one.)
Learn all about new places and peoples,
both in this country and abroad. After all,
even though the U.S.A. may be the best
country in the world and Texas the best part
of the U.S.A., there is-no land or section
which has not something to teach Ameri
cans and Texans. Never miss a chance to get
acquainted with a decent foreigner or non-
Texan American. And for heaven’s sake
don’t approach him (or her) in a contemptu
ous or condescending frame of mind. Learn
to understand and sympathetically to toler
ate customs and standards, sincerely follow
ed, which may be strange to you, even
though you may naturally not choose to fol
low them yourself. Remember that what
would be absolutely wrong and foolish for
you, a Texan, may not be so wrong or fool
ish for other kinds of people.
Read inquisitively whenever you can.
The American fighters in this war are better
provided with books than fighters have ever
been. Use them, and use them not altogether
for “escape” reading.
Above all, this war experience can teach
you, if you want it to, how to adjust your
self vigorously, efficiently, and cheerfully to
projects and conditions over which you have
no control, without losing your individuality
and becoming herd men. Perhaps it may help
to remember that the war won’t last for
ever, and that you have a long civilian life
to live afterwards. You will be shaping and
coloring the self with which you’ve got to
live for a long, long time. It is possible, if
you go about it right, to make the war,' in
some degree, “educate” that self well.
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“I better quit now, fellows. I just got an impediment in my
speech!”
BACKWASH
By
Jack Hood
“Backwash: An agitation resulting from some action or occurrence” — Webster
ASSOCIATED COLLEGE PRESS
What’s this—three South American conti
nents instead of one? That’s what the latest
map of South America reveals.
The map, it must be explained, is that
of a University of Cincinnati paleogeographer
who, after studies over the past five years,
has drawn the first complete picture of the
face of South America as, it appeared some
250 or 300 million years ago. The studies
and the map are the work of Dr. Kenneth E.
Caster, Cincinnati assistant professor of ge
ology and fellow of the graduate school of
arts and sciences.
In that Paleozoic area great seas cov
ered South America in the region now mark
ed by the Andean mountains and spread
widely across southern Brazil and the Am
azon valley, Dr. Caster finds. Instead of one
immense triangular land mass as it is now,
South America was then made up three great
land masses separated by wide seas. Dr. Cas
ter’s map shows these ancient continental
areas extending far into the regions now
thq^ Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Carrib-
bean sqp.
Dr. Caster also holds that seas covered
large areas of South America for hundreds
of millions of years and, he believes, the pres
ent aspect of the continent came into being
only a few thousands of years ago.
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Mathematics Dictionary, first book of its
kind, has appeared from the Digest Press,
Van Nuys, its authors being Dr. Glenn
James, associate professor of mathematics
at the University of California, and his son,
a graduate of the university, Robert C.
James, now teaching fellow at the California
Institute of Technology.
As long ago as 1858, says Dr. Glenn
James, a dictionary and encyclopedia of
mathematics appeared, but there has been
no such handy book as a dictionary. Spend
ing 12 to 14 hours a day, the authors wrote
some 6,000 definitions.
The meaning of the basic mathematical
words and phrases, and all terms of*arithme-
tic through calculus and the technical terms
involved, are covered in the 280-page book.
Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, the math
ematics of finance and integral calculus are
represented, with a wealth of explanatory
drawings, formulas and tables.
By John Holman
On Main Street. . .
. . .Tonight Dallas will undoubtedly
pull up its belt a notch and heave
a sigh of sorrow as the Aggies very
carefully pick the little city apart
piece by piece, rockin’ and rollin’
around like so many flies on a
crumb of cake ... in short, fair
fellows, Ole’ Army’s cornin’ to
town!
Nacherly, the main attraction is
the little head-busting fracas in
the middle of Ownby Stadium that
will begin this afternoon at 2:30
promptly. And let me repeat Jack
Hood’s tip—don’t try to walk out
to S. M. U.—it is six miles from
downtown. You had better take a
bus, streetcar, taxi, or what-have-
you, but walk only if you will miss
the game if you don’t.
> • • •
From TSCW . . .
. . . Comes wo/d about the little
shin-dig the juniors of “M’lady’s”
school threw for the boys from the
Brazos wearing their serge for the
first time. They say, ’twas damp
out in more ways than one, but
that everyone was at least “calm”
enough to leave the walls in the
buildings and not uproot all of the
campus’ lovely vegetation. . . . And
speaking of hearing tales, did you
hear the one about the girl who
asked her fellow, “Is my face dirty
or is it my imagination?” The boy
replied, “I don’t know about your
imagination, but your face is
clean!” (Whew!)
• • •
This Issue . . .
. . . Of the Batt is being delivered
to you on the streets of Big “D”
through the courtesy of the five
staff members sitting down here
struggling “almost alone” to give
you reading matter from the Ad
ministration building right in front
of the Baker Hotel. Printed 4000
strong, half of them were left in
College Station, “almost alone,”
for the sophs and fish that just
couldn’t make it. 2000 of them are
now cluttering the streets and ho
tel lobbies of this fair city.
• • •
Tonight. . .
... If you want to really hit the
best spots, drop around to the main
ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel
about nine and get a gob of gush
ing and rushing for $1.10 from the
Dallas A. & M. Mothers’ Club Ag
gie Victory Ball. Then you might
drop out to—but why am I doing
this? Look at Murphy’s “Musical
Meanderings” below this column.
Or if you like the circus, Ring-
ling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey
present the greatest show on earth
at the Oak Lanes Show Grounds
It’ll cost you a buck or two, but
you’ll probably never see another
one until long after this war (in
which I hear they are killing each
other) is over.
Jokes . . .
. . . both good and bad turn up
around here ever so often. Which
reminds me of the farmer’s daugh
ter who had just returned from
college. The old man asked her
how much she weighed. She said,
“I weigh 140 pounds stripped for
gym.” The farmer looked at her
sort of queer-like and demanded,
“And just who in hell is Jim?”
Although most of you who read
this won’t be anywhere within
miles of College Station, the local
theatres will be doing their bus
iness on their same old corners
this week for those few unfor
tunate souls who have to stay
here buried deep in the mud of
the Brazos.
Still under the influence of Guion
Hall’s “Mrs. Miniver” and the
stirring “Eagle Squadron” still
showing at the Campus, it is hard
to come down to earth again and
dig up the low-down for you, but
we’ll do our best.
Current in the columned halls of
Guion is the 108 minute musical
comedy “Navy Blues.” There’s
nothing subtle about this one.
Warner Brothers quite apparently
set out to make a rough house
musical with the navy as a back
ground, using gags as broad as the
side of a barn and pounding them
home relentlessly by way of mak
ing certain the objective never sails
off, or over, its mark. So Jack
Oakie slaps Martha Raye around;
Martha slaps Oakie in return and
both beat on Poor Jack Haley. The
whole story is feather like and
goofy. Telling it fast, it deals
with bets among the gobs over
victory in gunnery practice, how
Oakie and Haley get the navy’s
prize gunsight on their boat and
flounder through this and that in
order to cash in the bets they’ve
made. Moves fast, but is slowed
down very pleasantly by some
snappy musical numbers. Ann
Sheridan is fair in the romantic
end, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Mar
tha Raye, Herbert Anderson, Jack
Carson, Richard Lane, and others
complete the cast.
The Lowdown: If you want to
laugh without sti’aining your brain,
see “Navy Blues.”
Still among the top few of the
current war pictures is “Eagle
Squadron,” showing now at the
Campus Theater. This picture is
a tribute to those American boys
who didn’t wait for the U. S. to
enter the war, but instead, joined
the Eagle squadron of the Royal
Air Force.
Through the use of official shots
of the squadron in action (the pic
ture was produced with the co
operative help from the RAF),
some stock clips, and plenty of ex
pert minature work, Producer
Walter Wanger has given the
picture a catching air of spectacle.
Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore,
John Loder, and Eddie Albert do
yoemanlike jobs to make “Eagle
Squadron” worth your time and
money.
The Lowdown: Still worth stay
ing sober to see.
In Bryan the Palace has an
other goodie, making the decision
of movies this week end a stiff
one to pick from. “Somewhere I’ll
Find You” is the story of a war
correspondent, his brother and the
one girl, with the story spread out
all over New York, Indo-China,
Manila and Bataan gives Clark
Gable and Lana Turner the basis
for a film that just can’t miss.
Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane and
Reginald Owen complete the cast.
The Lowdown: Worth walking
to see.
Musical Meanderings
By BILL MURPHY
Some time before his death, he had
stamped his likeness upon a little boy.—
Dickens.
For some must follow, and some com
mand though all are made of clay!—Long
fellow.
With Aggies leaving every few
minutes for Dallas the campus is
rapidly becoming deserted, and to
those Aggies who are 100% Aggie
and will follow the team, win or
lose, this column is respectively
dedicated. In Dallas this week end
it seems that the finest enter
tainment available is being pro
vided for Aggies and their dates.
If its “Cafe Society” you like
you may hear Ligon Smith and
Orchestra holding forth at the
Century Room with a fast and
smooth floor show, and over at
the Baker you will find one of
the finest floor shows in the
country headed by Myrus, a real
wizard of mental telepathy, and
the soft music of Joe Sudy and
his band. If you just want to dance,
let me recommend the official
Aggie Corps Dance at the Adolph
us, probably in the spacious Grand
Ballroom. For those that love the
hot, and I mean hot, Abe’s and
Pappy’s have a torrid negro or
chestra and review, but don’t go
unless you intend to see the floor
show. Ditto for Jack Pepper’s Log
Cabin Club.
A brand new night spot opened
recently on Main Street that
should prove to-be O.K.—Showtime
with Shanty Morell’s orchestra pro
viding the music. This is a swell
place to spend an evening if you
don’t want to spend much money.
Other hot spots include the Sky-
Vu, the Sylvan Club, the Night
spot, and the Aggies favorite—the
Pirate’s Cave; however, if you
want to find most of the Aggies
Saturday night, you will probably
find them at the Plantation or
Lou Ann’s out on Greenville Ave
nue. If you still don’t like these
suggestions then why don't you
go to the circus? Ringling Broth
ers & Barnum Bailey will be on
hand out at the show grounds on
Oak Lane.
Personally, you can’t beat the
beautiful White Rock Lake for
scenery and stuff.
Thirty-Second Notes
For the Aggies who would like
to see some good entertainment
the Pigskin Revue out at SMU is
one of the finest shows of its kind
in the country. Offered annually,
it features this year many of the
outstanding attractions featured
fith “College Capers” that travel
ed throughout Texas during the
summer, such as Bob Banner and
his orchestra, who was one of the
bands the Aggieland beat out in
a race for the Fitch Summer
Bandwagon. It’s good so don’t miss
it. Friday night—8:15 o’clock—Mc-
Farlin Auditorium out at SMU.
Once again the Aggieland steps
out in “Big Time” by playing the
Sunday afternoon radio show
“Time” sponsored by Interstate
Theaters, Inc. This show will orig
inate from Guion Hall Sunday af
ternoon the twenty-second and will
be aired all over the Southwest by
the Texas Quality Network.
That’s thirty for now so it’s
goodbye until I see you in Dallas.
Ex-Aggie in Air Corps Tells
Experiences in British Isles
(From San Angelo Standard)
Lt. Chase Holland, administra- It doesn’t help matters any for you
tive officer with the U. S. Air to tell me about the chuck wagon
Forces in England, has found out suppers and the Mexican dinners
the new secret weapon of the Brit- you have been having,
ish allies. They have a certain “We have our own PX now, and
bomb that plays “Deep In the we are able to buy soap, candy and
Heart of Texes,” and when a from three to six packs of cigar-
crowd gathers around to listen, it ettes a week. That with the amount
explodes and kills them all. He I have on hand should last a long
thinks the funniest sight he has time.
seen over there was four Scotch- “We are now where we can get
men standing on a comer singing laundry and dry cleaning done, and
“Deep In the Heart of Texas.” that certainly helps, I never really
The San Angeloan who has been appreciated clean clothes until I
in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and over here.
England in the month or more he “I hope to get back in London
has been there, has written inter- i n a d a y or ^ wo an ^ see a ^ ew
estingly to his parents, Mr. and thin g s before dark. I can’t see my
Mrs. I. J. C. Holland of San An- han d before my face in the black-
gelo. Going on American rations ou ^- I guess I might be considered
was an item worthy of note since lucky getting to see New York
he got two eggs for breakfast that an< l Loudon iu the same month,
day, “really quite a treat.” Ex- Now a U 1 have to do is to see Paris,
cerpts from his letters follow: Berlin, Moscow and then home by
“Almost all our transportation wa ^ of Tok y° and San ^cisco.”
around the camps is by bicycle,
and we have been having all sorts Senior Invitations
of three-point landings, slow rolls, M t g Ordered By
etc., and I came riding out of a j
driveway, up the right hand side Next Thursday at 6
of the road (which is the wrong 0rders for Senior invitations wi n
side) and much to my horror, I was be taken next TueS( iay, Wednes-
face to face with a 10-ton truck. I dayj and Thursday in the Corps
sat back on the brake, but the Headquarters Office from 9 a. m.
brakes are on the handlebars. The unti i 6 p . m . states Rocky Suther .
truck looked pretty solid, and the land> Senior class p r e S ident.
barbed wire fense looked pretty
, T , , . The invitations come in three
rough so I d,d a loop an Immel- ^
man turn, and a couple of Schen- , . il ’ „ . ’ ,
, each, with small deposits having
dells, and headed back in the op- ^ . .
.. .... t, ,, T to be placed when the order is
posite direction. From then on I , , : .
. , , , , . turned in. Thursday will definitely
have remembered where my brakes , x . , x , x . • ,
, . . . ., , ,, j x be the last date m which to order
are and which side of the road to
ride on.
“Howard and I took a horseback
ride yesterday, just for a little re
laxation. The English horses are
just like American horses, and
don’t mind what accent you use.
“I have really been working hard
.since we reached our new station,
which is more like a country club.
It has a huge dining room, a li
brary, a billiard room, tennis
courts, and a lawn that looks like
something you see in the movies.
The food is plentiful, but nothing
to brag about. We get plenty of
potatoes but they are seldom boil
ed. We have fish and French fries
very often and I have taken up the
art of tea sipping, because the cof
fee tastes like burned pecan shells.
WHAT’S SHOWING
At the Campus
Today only — “Eagle
Squadron” with Robert Stack
and Diana Barrymore.
At Guion Hall
Today only—“Navy Blues”
with Ann Sheridan, Jack
Oakie, Martha Raye, and
Jack Haley.
the invitations, Sutherland said.
Qhmpiu
Telephone 4-1181
LAST DAY
“EAGLE
SQUADRON”
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ROBERT STACK
DIANA BARRYMORE
— Also —
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